Webtrust

Webtrust

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| | |Accountants |agréés |

| | |of Canada |du Canada |

AICPA/CICA

WebTrust SM/TM

Program for

Certification Authorities

August 25, 2000

Version 1.0

Copyright © 2000 by

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Inc. and

Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Permission is granted to make copies of this work provided that such copies are for personal, intraorganizational, or educational use only and are not sold or disseminated and provided further that each copy bears the following credit line: “Copyright © 2000 by American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Inc. and Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. Used with permission.”

This document is available on AICPA Online at http://www.aicpa.org and on CICA Online at http://www.cica.ca.

FOREWORD TO GUIDE

This document, AICPA/CICA WebTrust Program for Certification Authorities Version 1.0, was developed with initial and on-going input from a variety of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) practitioners including both providers and users of PKI. Through the exposure draft process, the AICPA/CICA Electronic Commerce Assurance Task Force received a number of meaningful comments from a variety of international organizations including Certification Authority service providers, users, public accounting firms, national accounting societies, and government entities. Since the Exposure Draft was published in February 2000, the Task Force members have considered each of the comments received. The comments...